TORONTO, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- A senior firefighter's death was the only confirmed fatality from a massive propane gas explosion that rocked Toronto early Sunday, officials said.
BANGKOK, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife, who was convicted of tax evasion last month, have fled to England, Thai court officials said.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Defense revealed it's sending a bigger percentage of its troops into combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- At least 33 people, including eight civilians, died in a coalition airstrike in southern Afghanistan, military officials said Monday.
TBILISI, Georgia, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- The breakaway region of South Ossetia will push for international recognition of genocide against its people, republic President Eduard Kokoity said.
TOKYO, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- The United States won't take North Korea off its list of terrorism sponsors until Pyongyang's denuclearization verification effort is complete, Japan said.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- The lengthy charge-sheet against Pervez Musharraf may lead to an open trial of the embattled Pakistani president who faces the threat of impeachment.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- The charge-sheet against Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who faces impeachment, are strong and voluminous, a government minister said.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- An English-language audio message purportedly from al-Qaida No. 2 leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has urged Pakistanis to support the Jihadi movement.
DENVER, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton will address the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August, organizers said Sunday.
NEW YORK, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Republican strategist Karl Rove Sunday said likely U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama should have a bigger lead than he has in the polls.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Republican presidential hopeful John McCain's campaign manager would not say whether the Arizona senator planned to commit to serve only one term as president.
DAYTON, Ohio, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- China Arnold, the Ohio woman accused of microwaving her 3-week-old daughter to death in 2005, faces a retrial Monday, officials said.
TBILISI, Georgia, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Both major U.S. presidential candidates say they have spoken to the president of Georgia and are calling for an end to Russian bombing of that country.
BOSTON, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- A former New Hampshire man who claimed to be a member of the Rockefeller family, already held on a kidnapping case, could face new charges, officials said.
LONDON, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Some sellers on the U.S. Internet auction site eBay say they're upset that the online marketplace is allowing retailers to list products at fixed prices.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- An Anchorage, Alaska, marathoner has lived to tell about her futile attempt to outrun a bear and its cubs on a city trail.
RAFAH, Egypt, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Hundreds of Hamas supporters gathered Sunday on the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing to protest closure of the terminal, officials said.
GALVESTON, Texas, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- A Galveston, Texas, animal exhibit has been reopened while police keep searching for a missing poisonous snake they now believe stolen.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. and Iraqi officials have agreed on a framework for American troop withdrawals, but it remains unclear whether the plan would be approved, U.S. sources say.
HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 10 (UPI) -- A Hartford, Conn., festival has been marred by violence that left one man dead, a child in critical condition and five other juveniles wounded, police say.
